Blast from the past as the Thrillseekers take on the Heavenly Bodies from SMW.
There's a whole story around this match as they announced that Jericho had broken is arm in a motocycle accident. In the real world he'd been working on a moonsault the day before and broke his arm and Cornette blew his stack.
You can see that Lance and Chris were still fairly green, but so far ahead of the style of the day.
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Great gimmick for its time, that followed a huge tradition of non speaking monster wrestlers bought from parts unknown or deepest darkest Africa to destroy the good guy. These guys usually never won belts, their job was to destroy the roster and build up for the match against the Champion at a major event, then move onto the next territory.
Fun to watch, he had a rough last part of his life.
RIP
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Didn't Kamala slap his belly as part of his shtick? Kind of remember him as more comic relief than scary, but he had a memorable look.
Talk about a gimmick that wouldn't pass the smell test today.
RIP
Yeah, in the later part of his career he was more of a comedy character, but at his height he was a pretty terrifying and devastating heel, he rarely sold, he usually had a high level manager, and he always looked like he was stalking his prey and getting ready for a meal.
When Kamala was at his height he was more of a territorial heel. You bring him in to pop ticket sales by setting up a match with your face champion, then he moves onto other territories.
With Harris, he would do that, you look at his bio and he worked almost every American Territory, but he was rarely highly paid as he was more of a short term gun working on a per appearance fee, then he would either go on to another territory, or he would go and drive a truck for a while until a territory needed a big heel.
There were bigger examples of guys like Abdullah the Butcher, or Maniac MArk Lewin, who would go from territory to territory and put on major blood fests, do a temporary pop up of ticket sales then move on. The difference is that Kamala really wouldn't burn out a territory, whereas Abdullah and Lewin would.
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So I re-read the book Wrestlecrap over the weekend by RD Reynolds and Merle Vincent.
Its a great book from the standpoint of looking for the worst characters and booking decisions through wrestling history, but the interesting thing is that it takes a deep dive into the Monday Night Wars and how WCW booked itself into oblivion and that after the end of WCW Vince and the WWE made even worse decisions and booking choices and even though it didn't harm them then except they lost the momentum of the 5.0 to 6.0 ratings eventually losing them, it amazing how it resonates to this day with the both organizations WWE and AEW really struggling in terms of booking cards and making characters that are interesting and have lasting power.
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